dere

See also: derë and de re

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁‎ (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
     "Then heard he a voice say Galahad, I see there environ about thee so many angels that my power may not dere thee"

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Alternative forms

• der

Pronunciation

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

• Eder, Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛrɛ]

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• deere, deore

Etymology

From Old English dīere, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːr(ə)/

Adjective

dere

1. dear

Descendants

• English: dear
• Scots: dere, deir
• Yola: dear

References

• “dẹ̄re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Norwegian dialectal dere, a variant of der, from Middle Norwegian *þiðr. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ- from the verb ending in second person plural. Replaced older I (nominative) and eder (accusative).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

   Synonyms: I, eder

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere		deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian *þiðr, whence also der. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ-, similar to þit from hafið it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²deːɾə/, /ˈdeːɾə/

Pronoun

dere

1. (dialectal, South East Norway) objective case of de; alternative form of dykk (“you (plural)”)

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

1. third-person singular present of derati

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Slovene

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

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Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

Noun

dere

1. creek (A stream of water smaller than a river.)
2. glen, basin, ravine A long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a "vadi" — "valley".)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	dere
Definite accusative	dereyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dere	dereler
Definite accusative	dereyi	dereleri
Dative	dereye	derelere
Locative	derede	derelerde
Ablative	dereden	derelerden
Genitive	derenin	derelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular derem derelerim 2nd singular deren derelerin 3rd singular deresi dereleri 1st plural deremiz derelerimiz 2nd plural dereniz dereleriniz 3rd plural dereleri dereleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular deremi derelerimi 2nd singular dereni derelerini 3rd singular deresini derelerini 1st plural deremizi derelerimizi 2nd plural derenizi derelerinizi 3rd plural derelerini derelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular dereme derelerime 2nd singular derene derelerine 3rd singular deresine derelerine 1st plural deremize derelerimize 2nd plural derenize derelerinize 3rd plural derelerine derelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular deremde derelerimde 2nd singular derende derelerinde 3rd singular deresinde derelerinde 1st plural deremizde derelerimizde 2nd plural derenizde derelerinizde 3rd plural derelerinde derelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular deremden derelerimden 2nd singular derenden derelerinden 3rd singular deresinden derelerinden 1st plural deremizden derelerimizden 2nd plural derenizden derelerinizden 3rd plural derelerinden derelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular deremin derelerimin 2nd singular derenin derelerinin 3rd singular deresinin derelerinin 1st plural deremizin derelerimizin 2nd plural derenizin derelerinizin 3rd plural derelerinin derelerinin

References

• dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

Verb

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dere	ddere	nere	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

Noun

dere ?

1. valley